Aretha Franklin 1942 - 2018

[zola]

Transcending genres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktFUwPGWag

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Aretha's gone...

The Associated Press
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Publicist for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
2:57 PM · Aug 16, 2018.

One of the TRULY greats. I first heard her on French radio in the early 60s, the Columbia single "It won't be long", very Ray Charles, knock out piano. For anyone thinking she had nothing to do with "jazz", check out her first ever French concert on You tube, or her "Soul 69" album on Atlantic with the cream of Jazz session players. She was extraordinary. One of my favorites, her heart stoping remake of Johnny Ace's "My Song", a 60s Atlantic throwaway B side. Ravishing.

[Serial_Apologist]

R.I.P. Aretha



(I would think the funeral will be quite an event)

[Stunsworth]

As BR says, one of the greats. I always thought of her and Ella as two sides of the same coin.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Terribly sad news - great Musician.

[Nick Armstrong]

Very sad...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ray Charles sang at Sam Cooke's funeral. Those of stature are regrettably getting fewer...

[teamsaint]

She made it so easy to feel that, through her music, you were moving, or she was drawing you into her world, despite differences in colour, class, race, gender, nationality.
A pricelsss gift, that.

Lots of little prayers of thanks being said, I think.

[Stunsworth]

Wonderful obituary in the Grauniad…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/16/aretha-franklin-obituary

[Serial_Apologist]

Wonderful obituary in the Grauniad…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...nklin-obituary

Richard Williams at his best.

[Beef Oven!]

Sad news. RIP

[eighthobstruction]

....r.e.s.p.e.c.t....

[cloughie]

Richard Williams at his best.

Indeed an excellent obituary, with little left out. Rightly titled the Queen of Soul, few came near her, the voice, the timing, at times the sheer power of the voice, at others, the sensitivity. RIP Aretha.

[Quarky]

RIP Aretha.

Her contribution to Civil Rights will not be overlooked.

[Lat-Literal]

The Associated Press
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Publicist for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
2:57 PM · Aug 16, 2018.

One of the TRULY greats. I first heard her on French radio in the early 60s, the Columbia single "It won't be long", very Ray Charles, knock out piano. For anyone thinking she had nothing to do with "jazz", check out her first ever French concert on You tube, or her "Soul 69" album on Atlantic with the cream of Jazz session players. She was extraordinary. One of my favorites, her heart stoping remake of Johnny Ace's "My Song", a 60s Atlantic throwaway B side. Ravishing.

Paul Simon...….

I was reading a magazine
And thinking of a rock and roll song
The year was 1954
And I hadn't been playing that long
When a man came on the radio
And this is what he said
He said I hate to break it
To his fans
But Johnny Ace is dead

Well, I really wasn't
Such a Johnny Ace fan
But I felt bad all the same
So I sent away for his photograph
And I waited till it came
It came all the way from Texas
With a sad and simple face
And they signed it on the bottom
From the Late Great Johnny Ace

It was the year of the Beatles
It was the year of the Stones
It was 1964
I was living in London
With the girl from the summer before
It was the year of the Beatles
It was the year of the Stones
A year after J.F.K.
We were staying up all night
And giving the days away
And the music was flowing
Amazing
And blowing my way

On a cold December evening
I was walking through the Christmas tide
When a stranger came up and asked me
If I'd heard John Lennon had died
And the two of us
Went to this bar
And we stayed to close the place
And every song we played
Was for the Late Great Johnny Ace